Brian Pothier discusses his homecoming

"You're on a team and in a community, your kids are in school, you have a house, everything's normal," Brian Pothier said Wednesday morning at the Verizon Center. "And then in 10 seconds, you get the news that you're not gonna be there any more. And it's kind of upheaval. The world kind of goes out of control for a little bit, and you just find a way to deal with it." Pothier was discussing his trade from Washington -- where he had spent most of four seasons -- to Carolina. He was standing in the other dressing room at Verizon Center, having walked in through the other entrance -- "still weird," he said. His jersey had a No. 5, even though his pads still had a faded No. 2, his old number in D.C. He said he's talked to almost all of his ex-teammates since the trade, and